CVE-2025-13922
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'existing_terms_orderby' parameter in the AI preview AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of SQL query parameterization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above who have AI metabox permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, cause performance degradation, or enable data inference through time-based techniques.
Risk Assessment
An attacker with a Contributor account can exfiltrate sensitive data from the WordPress database, including user data, and degrade site performance.
Recommendation
Update the plugin to a version newer than 3.40.1; if not possible, restrict Contributor privileges and disable AI metabox features for unprivileged roles.
Other vulnerabilities in Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
See all- CVE-2025-13359Medium
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the getTermsForAjax function in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to append additional SQL queries into existing queries to extract sensitive information from the database, granted they have metabox access for the taxonomy (enabled by default for contributors).
- CVE-2025-13354Medium
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 3.40.1 is vulnerable to authorization bypass. The "taxopress_merge_terms_batch" function does not properly verify that a user is authorized to perform an action, allowing authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to merge or delete arbitrary taxonomy terms.
- CVE-2025-11972Medium
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all versions up to and including 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping and lack of preparation on the SQL query. This allows authenticated attackers with Editor-level access and above to append additional SQL queries to extract sensitive information from the database.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'existing_terms_orderby' parameter in the AI preview AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of SQL query parameterization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above who have AI metabox permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, cause performance degradation, or enable data inference through time-based techniques.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS